]]>Comment on #NoEstimates, what is asked from us? by DevChildhttp://www.mellekoning.nl/index.php/2015/07/19/noestimates-what-is-asked-from-us/comment-page-1/#comment-79648
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:51:52 +0000http://www.mellekoning.nl/?p=811#comment-79648When an estimate is requested, I believe it’s more a commitment that is asked than a real timing question. A software engineer understands this and is willing to commit (in most cases) for the things he has under his control (e.g. programming and unit-testing) but for nothing else. The problem I see is that the people asking the estimates usually have a very different understanding of how far the control of these engineers should reach.

This miscommunication or misunderstanding results in useless estimates over and over again. The #NoEstimates movement seems to be more a debate on how this problem can be solved. Some people question if it is useful to estimate at all if an estimates needs to take into accounts all the unknown unknowns of the project/task.

I’m not sure that continuous delivery can actually solve this problem. It’s like building a house, you will see it being constructed every day (so it is continues delivery in a sense), this changes nothing, you still need to know in advance how much money you will need for a loan.